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Yes! That might have been a good idea!! Thank you!

Thank you both for your replies. That certainly seems to be a very likely interpretation. I will have a look at the site and see if I can gain any more information that way. Thanks again!! incidentally, he mentions being involved in action in a place called "Karouan" (which I believe is in...

Have recently acquired some WW2 letters from my wife's late grandfather to his brother, which has led me want to know more about his military history. i just don't know where to start... The letters (dated from Feb 1943 onwards) are addressed in his own hand as follows: 384 Bty 117 Lt A.A. Regt R.A....

Well, many thanks! What I originally thought was yet another transcription error is actually a real name...

I thought it was perhaps Betinah, or something similar!

You do learn something every day, indeed!!

That's what the transcription says, but what sort of name is Keturah? I've never come across that before!!

This is the baptism entry for one of the members of my friend's tree, but what's her name?

By my calculations it would appear that the Mabel born in 1892 is the aunt if the Mabel born in 1886.

It all seems so obvoius now that I see it!! I don't know how I didn't find him before, what was I thinking!! Many thanks for the help everyone, I feel confident that the William Spurway and his family from Pilton are all the right person (I believe Pilton and Barnstable are very close by). The witne...

I'm doing some research for a friend and I'm having difficulties locating one particular line. My friends great grandmother Mabel Spurway was born in 1893 in Barnstable. her marriage certificate (to Authur Reginald Casely Howard in 1915) not only shows her age, but also shows her father as William, ...

Thanks. I've already popped an email off to the SFHS. I'll see if I can do the same to the Shropshire Archive too.

Thanks, I'll give them a try!

I'm doing a bit of third party research at the monent, as well as continuing with my own, and have come across the birth certificate of a Lucy Gladys Brookes born in 1921 in Oswestry in Shropshire. Unfortunately there is no father named on the certificate and from discussion with the relatives the f...

I have just entered details of my 1st cousin 3x removed. On the 1901 census he give an occupation of " Tennis bat bender ", which I think has to be my favourite occupation among those I've found so far! Does anyone else have a favourite, unusual occupation that made you smile when you foun...

Yes, of course, but not before I say a big thank you to Maths girl for her help, and for the 1911 file I have now received!

Thanks both that's fabulous! I didn't expect to find the mother-in-law there as well!

Maths girl, is there any way you could send me the image please? <EDIT> I already have the answer to that! Thank you!